Hatred and Civility
Subtitle: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780231130646
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Social & political philosophy; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; 19th century; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Literature and society; Misanthropy in literature
First sentence: TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD, intent on writing a "History of the British Public," Edward Lytton Bulwer feared in 1824 that the destruction of social values, including sympathy, would spawn widespread misery.